I doubt it took 'forever' to create; I interpreted the article to mean it was low on the priority list, not hard to do. Drawing the custom toolbar was likely a

I doubt it took 'forever' to create; I interpreted the article to mean it was low on the priority list, not hard to do. Drawing the custom toolbar was likely as straight-forward as it gets. First, in the desktop programming world, where you may only have about a dozen gadgets to choose from, you must extend a control, use a third-party control, or draw your own. This wasn't about three pixels, this was about making the program look the way the designer intended it to. There is more to programming than just adding features and avoiding bugs. If you're a startup, you must focus on programming. If you have customers with high expectations and need to make nice screenshots to impress Mac enthusiasts, you should make the software look as special as you can.